Hair-confiner.



no. 741,870. PATENTED 002:. 20, 1903. A. B. WOOD.

HAIR GONFINER.

APPLIOATION nun JULY 9, 1903.-

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UNITED Patented October 20, 1903.

HAIR-CONFINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,870, dated October 20, 1903.

Application filed July 9,1903. Serial No. 16 L925. (No model.)

To all? whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALICE BOISE -WOOD, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lIair-Oonfiners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a convenient device forholding portions of the hair in place at desired points; and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a hair-confinerembodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation showing the device in use. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation showing the device in use in another position.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, (1 represents the base member, which, as here shown, is a well-known form of hair-pin, although the invention is not limited to this form of base member, as any comb, pin, or other like device, preferably of relatively inflexible construction and adapted to be securely engaged with the hair, may be employed.

b I) represent a series of flexible members, which may be called fingers or tentacles, rigidly fixed at their inner ends to the member a, as shown in Fig. 1, the outer ends of the members I) being free and the flexibility of the members being such that they can be bent and caused to assume and retain a great variety of positions. The members I) are preferably made of slender wire, and they may be covered by windings of silk or otherwise,the coverings being preferably colored to match the hair of the wearer.

My invention, as illustrated in Fig. 3, is embodied in a device for use in confining the front hair at the side and front of the head. When the device is to be used in this position, the base member a is preferably in the form of an ordinary side comb instead of the pin shown in Fig. 1. y

In using the device the comb or base member a is inserted in the hair, the teeth of the comb preferably pointing downward and backward. The flexible members I) are then separately bent in such manner that they rest lightly upon the hair above and in front of the comb member and serve to slightly compress the hair and hold it in place. Iprefer to emp'loy a suitable number of the fingers, so that when bent to position they will collectively form a confiner which is sufficient to hold practically all the front hair of the wearer or all upon one side of the head in place, serving the same purpose as a light veil or not which has often been worn.

The invention may be embodied in a desilk of a shade to match the hair are prac- A tically invisible when in place, and thus afford the desired support for the hair without presenting an untidy appearance. They are also exceedingly light andfree from any objection of undue weight.

It will frequently be found practicable after the wires have once been bent to position to use the device repeatedly Without change in the form into which the fingers b have been bent, and, if desired, the whole device may be constructed of relatively rigid material, such as shell or celluloid, the fingers I) being either rigidly at'fixed to or integral with the base portion a.

I claim- 1. A hair-confiner comprising ahair-enga ing base member, and flexible hair-confining members rigidly fixed thereto, said members being capable of being bent to change their position.

2. A hair-confiner comprising a base member adapted to enter the hair, and tentacles or fingers rigidly fixed at one end to the base member and free at their other ends,said

tentacles being capable of being bent to change their positions and adapted to exert a restraining pressure upon the hair at portions intermediate of their ends.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig nature in presence of two witnesses.

ALICE BOISE WOOD.

Witnesses: A. D. HARRISON, WALTER P. ABELL. 

